Warning - blatant commercial plug Duane said : > I know this is an international list, but if you ever wanted to come to California, > February would be a great time because of the Golden Gate Sea Kayak Symposium. Can't resist this Duane - just to keep that 'international' aspect honest ;-) I'm going to throw some competition at the Golden Gate for Feb 2010... All you Northern Hemisphere folk should consider escaping down-under and enjoying our mid-summer Coastbusters Sea Kayak Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand. Held every 2 years, this has 180 keen paddlers come from all over the country (and a bunch of other countries too). No commercial activity, just some of the world's best at what we all love to do - talking about how and why and where. Fri/Sat dry, Sunday wet. Follow it up with a fantastic week at the IKW - with a much smaller crowd (50) - if you can swing it. Check out www.coastbusters.org.nz and start day-dreaming. Note that we do our darndest to look after people who make the effort to come and give us some international spice... We mean that. Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Doesn't sound like much fun if you can't drink the first two days! Buy really, what are you doing the first two days that you don't get on the water? The GGSKS is a chance for us folk who paddle in relatively calm water to push the envelope in the bumpy waters of San Frisco. Will you promise we'll be taking our life in our hands on your Sunday paddle??? NZ is high on MY wish list! Mark Sanders ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hayward" <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> > Fri/Sat dry, Sunday wet... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Paul Hayward <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> wrote: > > Note that we do our darndest to look after people who make the effort to > come and give us some international spice... We mean that. > > If I won the lottery or managed a financial ponzi scheme my fantasy would be to have a home in, say, Nanaimo and another home somewhere in NZ. And a C-130 to fly back and forth between them. An endless summer except that twice a year I'd fly to wherever I could find good cross country skiing for a grand total of two or three weeks of winter. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Craig Jungers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Paul Hayward <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> wrote: > >> Note that we do our darndest to look after people who make the effort to >> come and give us some international spice... We mean that. >> >> If I won the lottery or managed a financial ponzi scheme my fantasy would > be to have a home in, say, Nanaimo and another home somewhere in NZ. And a > C-130 to fly back and forth between them. An endless summer except that > twice a year I'd fly to wherever I could find good cross country skiing for > a grand total of two or three weeks of winter. > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA > www.nwkayaking.net A good idea, Craig. Although I have two small corrections. The first would be *successful* ponzi scheme. Successful from your POV, of course. The second would be to skip the "twice a year" winter part. I spent my childhood in the Canadian arctic. There are two reactions to that sort of thing: you either love winter, cold weather and all that stuff, or you hate it. I'm definitely in the latter camp. I'll take the "endless summer" without a break, thanks very much. (Okay, maybe a week of crisp Fall weather with the leaves at their peak colour. But that's it.) I had a friend posted to NZ for a couple of years with the Canadian army. He loved it, as did another friend who spent a month visiting him down there. I could go for a summer home down there. Not sure about Nanaimo though. Interesting waters to paddle, but cold water too. I like to be able to strip down and jump in after a day on the water. (I know it scares the bejesus out of animals and small children when they see me, but that's their problem.) -- Darryl *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Craig said on 4 November 2009 > If I won the lottery... somewhere in NZ... An endless summer Wasn't my intention to make anyone unhappy about their lot - just thought that if such an adventure was 'on the radar' for anyone, it might allow the idea to crystallise (how's that for a mixed metaphor ;-) around a specific week. A week of good paddling with a very diverse crowd of locals - who are frequently keen to steer visitors into their own favourite coastal gems - or just drag them along to be wowed... Mark said > Doesn't sound like much fun if you can't drink the first two days! Damn! It just never crossed my mind that such a hardened group of old salts could ever entertain such a misapprehension for a minute... After all, we are a country with some pride in our wine and beer ;-) There was also some history of making Whiskey (in the deep south), but I understand it was more for emergency use. Or perhaps any use turned into an emergency - I don't know. Coastbusters has evolved into the format of a (keep-your-clothes) dry Friday evening and mostly dry Saturday, followed by a Sunday on the water - principally for logistical reasons. It just minimises the kayak-handling & clothes-changing in what is a busy couple of days. To achieve 4 or 5 seating areas with data-projectors - to allow parallel streams of content - we make use of a school on the edge of a small lake. Its adjacent 'Waterwise' training centre for young kids gives us ample scope for such things as rolling demos and various sorts of craziness that involve a sub-set of the whole group. People cope with the day of 'dry' sessions by knowing that the next day - about 20km away on a stunning bit of coast - will let them 'do it for real'. Seems to work. The classroom and gymnasium sessions range from stories of adventures that most of us can only dream about - like Paul Caffyn's or Justine's - to more approachable 'holidays' on the Danube, in Baja, or New Zealand's Fjordland - that anyone can aspire to. In other streams, there are the usual range of technology or practical subjects from gel-coat repair & hole-patching to simple & advanced nav sessions, sailing rigs, SoFs, food, etc. If there's a session on GPS, the presenter will be a kayaker first and a GPS user second. Perhaps an airline pilot or a navy skipper or a Geocachng enthusiast - but someone who looks at the whole thing from a wet eight inches above the water. We've all endured too many talks from vendors trying to pretend a grasp of the kayakers viewpoint. Sprinkled into the travelogs and the geek-fests are some sessions putting our local governmental agency people (eg: Conservation, CG & safety) in front of a kayaking audience. These appeal to a number of paddlers - to get a briefing on 'where the agency is going' and to let them provide feedback on kayakers' needs & preferences. These work well. Add in a few by Orca researchers, sea-bird Profs, Physios or Yoga instructors (who happen to kayak) and you get an eclectic collection of topics that have people complaining that they couldn't get to all the ones they wanted to. Better that than bored ;-) Not very different from a very good club-night presentation - just a selection of about 25 of them in one day - with the presenters chosen for having something worthwhile to talk about - or being bloody good at it - or both. Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Paul Hayward <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> wrote: > There was also some > history of making Whiskey (in the deep south), but I understand it was more > for emergency use. Or perhaps any use turned into an emergency - I don't > know. > W.C. Fields (a Vaudeville and Cinema star in the 1930s and 1940s was famous for saying that he carried a flask of whiskey in his right pocket in case of snakebite. And in his left pocket he carried..... a snake. Not very different from a very good club-night presentation - just a > selection of about 25 of them in one day - with the presenters chosen for > having something worthwhile to talk about - or being bloody good at it - or > both. > > Sounds like a seriously great symposium. I may have to price airline tickets. Always wanted to visit NZ ever since Eric and Susan Hiscock moved there. (They sailed around the world 4 times and from NZ to BC, Canada and back in their 80s.) Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Craig said on 2009-11-04 > W.C... carried a flask of whiskey in his right pocket in case of snakebite. I always felt that WC, Sam Clemens and Groucho would be a good trio to hang with - if you have my level of cynicism... Boy, do I wish ! > wanted to visit NZ ever since Eric and Susan Hiscock moved there I remember seeing Wanderer (4 or 5) down here at Westhaven Marina in the 1980's. I believe Susan stayed on for a while in NZ, after Eric sadly 'faded away'. NZ was a pretty good final harbour, there's some good sailing and sailormen. I'd forgotten that the Hiscocks were Ransome fans - with "Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been." painted over their cabin door. God, I hope some kids, somewhere, still read Swallows & Amazons. Must have led to a lot of wet feet & happy hearts over the years. Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Paul, Looks like a great event. I'd sure like to see that presentation by Paul Caffyn. I also see they invited a couple Tsunami Rangers from California. Duane --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Paul Hayward <pdh_at_mmcl.co.nz> wrote: > Check out www.coastbusters.org.nz and start day-dreaming. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Duane said on 4 November 2009: > Looks like a great event. I'd sure like to see that presentation by > Paul Caffyn. I also see they invited a couple Tsunami Rangers Paul is amazing. In 2008 we all really enjoyed having Jim Kakuk (California) & Deb Volturno (Washington) down and they seemed to be having fun. We sure did. Deb is back at the front of the classroom and cursing her school calendar, but Eric Soares has just escaped from his teaching job and has decided to join Jim in a return visit. These are the sort of guys it's fun to have around in any group of kayakers - just as long as you can avoid getting led into temptation ;-) Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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